Task 1. For each gap 1-7, choose from the sentences A-M the one that best fits each gap. One sentence is extra. Compare with your partner. Justify your answers. A. Humans would need to be self-sufficient to survive in space long-term.
B. The only question is whether this happens in years, centuries or millennia.
C. Exploring space, however, is not without risk.
D. This costs a lot of money.
E. Nevertheless, Professor Hawking believes that we can afford to give 0.25% of the world's financial resources to colonise space.
F. He believes that sooner or later we will be wiped out by a catastrophe such as a meteor or nuclear war.
G. That way, we could reach the next star to Earth in just 6 years.
H. However, even if we found the perfect planet, we might not be able to get there at the moment.
Task 2. Fill in: self-sufficient, overcome, warm up, afford, release.
1. Eventually, they managed to… their problems.
2. The ISS isn't… because it can't produce or make everything that it needs.
3. Climate change could… the Earth by 3°C by 2100.
4. Power stations… carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
5. Only the world's richest can… a space tourist, it costs about $20 million!
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Krasnoyarsk - the city 's largest cultural, economic and educational center of Eastern Siberia and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai . Founded in 1628 , is the largest of the oldest towns in Siberia. Center of the East Siberian economic region.The city is situated on both banks of the Yenisei River at the junction of the West Siberian Plain, Central Siberian Plateau and the Sayan Mountains , in the valley formed by the northernmost spurs of the Eastern Sayana.Krupny scientific and educational center of the country. In the mid -1820s, the bureau under the supervision of architect William Hastie was developed promising city master plan . This project only marginally affected by the historically formed part of the city : in the center was undertaken alignment "red" lines and consolidation quarters.As intensive residential construction in a number of neighborhoods on the outskirts and " overload " of the central business district shopping and entertainment complexes and business centers while reducing the "green" zones has led to a deterioration of the environmental situation and the negative effects of transport infrastructure . Officials, however, instead of fighting with motorists in fact go on about them , expanding roads, destroying the lawn , cutting down trees and planning numerous surface and underground car parks " Universal motorization " of the population is causing severe air gassed Krasnoyarsk.The construction of large and two inner rings of the city transport .According to many , Krasnoyarsk , as in other major cities , it is necessary to seriously approach the issue of the transport organization with infill of public transport, release maximum space for pedestrians and cyclists and decrease the use of cars. Currently approved a plan for the building of the historical center of Krasnoyarsk.
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